DeLynn Morgan to Speak at 2023 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit!

 

The 2023 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit

                                         Welcomes   

          DeLynn Morgan, Program Manager 

        South Carolina Department of Mental Health

               First Responder Support Team (FRST)

 

DeLynn Morgan is a Licensed Professional Counselor, who lives in the Charleston area. She is the Program Manager for the First Responder Support Team with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. Prior to this position, she managed four different emergency programs with Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center:  Mobile Crisis, the First Responder Support Team (FRST), the Crime Victims Counseling Unit, and the Statewide Mobile Crisis Call Center. 

DeLynn is trained as a Crisis Negotiator and works in conjunction with law enforcement to de-escalate critical incidents. She is a clinical member of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Assistance Program (SCLEAP), the Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team (LFST), and the South Carolina First Responder Assistance and Support Team (SCFAST) where she provides EMDR to first responders in Post Critical Incident Seminars and she participates in debriefings following critical incidents across the State.

She obtained her Master of Education in Community Counseling from University of NC at Greensboro in 1993. She obtained her undergraduate degree in psychology and child development at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. in 1991. 

DeLynn will share information with Summit participants about the South Carolina Department of Health’s Fire Responder Support Team, originally started in Charleston after the Charleston 9 tragedy. The Team, staffed with clinicians trained in the emergency services culture, supports our firefighters, EMS personnel, 911 Telecommunicators, and Law Enforcement personnel in six different DMH offices in our State.